Yea I'm seeing some renewed discusion about author rewards and should they go, but in reality the rewards to authors are quite insignificant at the curent state of Hive. Around 1/3 of inflation is to authors, and half of that locked in HP. Aditionaly the votes for the stabilizer further reduce the author rewards for around 25% curently.

Furthermore there is a natural tendency from the community to vote on authors who keep their stake, so majority of what is left to authros goes to hodlers so to speak..